| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9981.31 | 204 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 3545.58 | 149 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1712.83 | 33 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1194.77 | 26 |
| 5 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1119.53 | 148 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1070.64 | 65 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1064.84 | 20 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1060.47 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 867.28 | 25 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 812.3 | 20 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 800.5 | 87 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 728.82 | 11 |
| (12) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 681.56 | 12 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 653.59 | 22 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 644.71 | 12 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 626.43 | 16 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 625.57 | 11 |
| 17 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 620.23 | 31 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 608.07 | 11 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 602.68 | 16 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 601.98 | 19 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 597.92 | 21 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 583.22 | 27 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 573.08 | 23 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 571.34 | 15 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 556.9 | 16 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 545.59 | 16 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 531.21 | 19 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 529.43 | 19 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 522.55 | 20 |
| 28 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 510.17 | 26 |
| 29 | CESifo | München, Germany | 501.16 | 36 |
| 30 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 498.56 | 29 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 484.34 | 24 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 479.36 | 27 |
| (32) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 469.38 | 18 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 442.98 | 25 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 431.7 | 30 |
| 35 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 390.4 | 12 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 387.3 | 21 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 378.3 | 10 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 373.75 | 16 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 362.86 | 18 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 351.62 | 22 |
| 41 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 345.49 | 23 |
| (41) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 343.24 | 15 |
| 42 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 339.03 | 7 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 336.9 | 17 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 333.01 | 18 |
| (44) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 330.91 | 12 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 317.62 | 18 |
| 46 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 317.43 | 57 |
| 47 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 306.84 | 8 |
| 48 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 296.4 | 14 |
| 49 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 287.21 | 20 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 286.99 | 10 |
| 51 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 286.26 | 21 |
| (51) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 283.52 | 3 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 278.6 | 18 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 277.98 | 13 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 274.24 | 27 |
| (54) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 273.28 | 14 |
| (54) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 270.59 | 3 |
| (54) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 264.22 | 22 |
| 55 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 258.51 | 3 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 255.02 | 19 |
| 57 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 252.8 | 11 |
| 58 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 252.36 | 10 |
| 59 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 251.05 | 42 |
| 60 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 249.99 | 7 |
| (60) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 249.92 | 6 |
| 61 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 247.11 | 31 |
| 62 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 241.11 | 7 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 238.69 | 19 |
| 64 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 236.72 | 8 |
| (64) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 235.54 | 7 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 234.31 | 13 |
| 65 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 229.34 | 24 |
| 66 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 228.64 | 4 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 228.29 | 7 |
| 68 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 220.92 | 7 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 216.6 | 6 |
| 70 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 215.75 | 39 |
| 71 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 215.7 | 11 |
| 72 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 213.09 | 14 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 211.4 | 12 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 196.22 | 9 |
| 75 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 193.52 | 5 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 191.2 | 10 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 189.71 | 14 |
| 78 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 188.15 | 8 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 188.15 | 8 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 186.49 | 28 |
| (79) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 186.46 | 3 |
| 80 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 182.57 | 1 |
| 81 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 182.16 | 8 |
| 82 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 181.91 | 9 |
| (82) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 180.86 | 6 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 174.56 | 8 |
| 84 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 172.94 | 19 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 171.73 | 14 |
| (85) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 168.22 | 2 |
| 86 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 167.17 | 15 |
| (86) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 164.77 | 3 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 160.88 | 8 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 159.97 | 10 |
| 89 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 159.93 | 38 |
| (89) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 159.32 | 12 |
| 90 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 156.25 | 6 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 155.54 | 5 |
| (91) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 155.42 | 10 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 155.34 | 9 |
| (92) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 155.16 | 2 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 155.07 | 8 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 152.5 | 13 |
| (94) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 150.47 | 1 |
| (94) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 149.62 | 5 |
| (94) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 146.72 | 12 |
| 95 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 145.69 | 9 |
| 96 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 144.81 | 5 |
| 97 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 144.41 | 37 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 144.11 | 10 |
| 99 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 142.64 | 17 |
| (99) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 141.26 | 1 |
| 100 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 137.35 | 13 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 137.04 | 18 |
| (101) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 136.92 | 4 |
| (101) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 133.74 | 7 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 132.75 | 6 |
| (102) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 129.95 | 3 |
| 103 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 129.74 | 7 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 129.67 | 8 |
| (104) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 129.51 | 4 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 129.19 | 14 |
| 106 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 128.93 | 18 |
| (106) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 127.6 | 5 |
| (106) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 126.73 | 2 |
| 107 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 126.71 | 14 |
| (107) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 125.18 | 8 |
| 108 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 124.73 | 25 |
| 109 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 124.03 | 9 |
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